Shakespeare and His CriticsHoughton Mifflin, 1909 - 386 páginas |
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... persons to - day plume them- selves on their accurate spelling of English words . Phrases in a foreign language have a peculiar flavor of depth and mystery . For this reason Matthew Arnold quotes CRITICISM BY CONTEMPORARIES 25.
... persons to - day plume them- selves on their accurate spelling of English words . Phrases in a foreign language have a peculiar flavor of depth and mystery . For this reason Matthew Arnold quotes CRITICISM BY CONTEMPORARIES 25.
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... language of post - mor- tem encomium . He says , - Triumph , my Britain ! thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe . Although the verses are so familiar , it is as well to transcribe them , as the first ...
... language of post - mor- tem encomium . He says , - Triumph , my Britain ! thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe . Although the verses are so familiar , it is as well to transcribe them , as the first ...
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... language , and that sometimes , especially in his earlier plays , his gentlemen make allusive remarks of an unpleasant character , though the tone of the plays is sound and the view of life they present true and pure . The versifier in ...
... language , and that sometimes , especially in his earlier plays , his gentlemen make allusive remarks of an unpleasant character , though the tone of the plays is sound and the view of life they present true and pure . The versifier in ...
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... language does not justify such an impression . He says that a ' tyrant may use pious and gentle language , ' and by inference that the prayers and religious musings attributed to the king are no proof that he was not a tyrant . To prove ...
... language does not justify such an impression . He says that a ' tyrant may use pious and gentle language , ' and by inference that the prayers and religious musings attributed to the king are no proof that he was not a tyrant . To prove ...
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... language , and the hero should pose as a person of social importance and never be shown in an undignified or ludicrous position ; third , a tragedy should be pure , that is , comic scenes should never be shown in the same play with ...
... language , and the hero should pose as a person of social importance and never be shown in an undignified or ludicrous position ; third , a tragedy should be pure , that is , comic scenes should never be shown in the same play with ...
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Página 27 - Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle SHAKESPEARE, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he 278 Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Página 57 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 26 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Página 179 - The form is mechanic, when on any given material we impress a predetermined form, not necessarily arising out of the properties of the material; as when to a mass of wet clay we give whatever shape we wish it to retain when hardened. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate; it shapes, as it develops, itself from within, and the fullness of its development is one and the same with the perfection of its outward form.
Página 184 - On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage ; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear, — we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the "Malice of daughters and .storms.
Página 25 - To draw no envy, SHAKESPEARE, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither man, nor muse, can praise too much.
Página 57 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Página 34 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Página 116 - Yet the man thus corrupt, thus despicable, makes himself necessary to the prince that despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety; by an unfailing power of exciting laughter...
Página 26 - And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine, Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line...